Exeter Community Energy (ECOE)’s Healthy Homes for Wellbeing project turned five in November 2022, but the twist was that it is celebrating what it has given the local community. It has supported over 5,000 households, including 2,400 home visits. In total it has saved them more than £2.6 million and prevented more than 1,000 tonnes […]

Exeter Community Energy (ECOE) is the winner of the Community Group/Charity/Non-Profit category in this year’s Exeter Sustainability Awards. The awards follow Exeter City Council declaring a commitment to make Exeter carbon neutral by 2030. In particular they recognise and champion those who are making strides in this area. Princesshay Exeter, Exeter City Futures, Exeter City […]

Hopefully you’ve read posts introducing you to the ECOE team before. We like to keep you up to date on the new faces to you so that you don’t wonder who they are when you meet them. Today we introduce Ionna Trofimova-Elliot, our new finance director. What is your role at ECOE? My responsibility is […]

People in Devon can now put forward fields to help the climate and cost of living crisis. That is thanks to a project called Power Allotments, Devon. Do you or your neighbours know an insignificant five-acre field of poor agricultural value? Similarly, is there a field tucked away out of view behind hedges or sandwiched […]

A University of Exeter researcher has found that Exeter Community Energy (ECOE)’s fuel poverty work prevents seven times the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that its solar installations do. Joe Francis, a global sustainability master’s degree student, found that ECOE’s Healthy Homes for Wellbeing project prevented 595 tonnes of emissions from February 2021-March 2022. That […]